Three-Act Tragedy - Velha Estante

No cover — Agatha Christie: Three-Act Tragedy (2004, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2004 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-073634-7

(1 review)

Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead—choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison.

Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder.…

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4 stars

Sir Charles Cartwright has retired from acting and lives away from the public eye in Cornwall. He plans a dinner party whose guests include Hercule Poirot and Egg - Hermione Gore - that has caught Cartwright's eye. During dinner, Reverend Babbington dies after taking a sip from a cocktail but an analysis reveals there was no poison in it. Some days later, a friend of Cartwright hosts a party with almost the same guests and the same tragedy occurs. Poirot learns of this new death while on holiday and returns with Cartwright to investigate the matter.

I was expecting the killer but I was not expecting the reasons behind the first crime and that made me enjoy the story even more. Christie knew how to tangle the past, present and future in a deadly way!